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11 July 2014

Friday's Literary Feast

Quotes from The Virago Book of Food: The Joy of Eating

EDITH WHARTON

1862 - 1937

She had expected to view the company through a bower of orchids and eat pretty-coloured entrées in ruffled papers. Instead, there was only a low centre-dish of ferns, and plain roasted and broiled meat that one could recognize - as if they'd been dyspeptics on a diet! With all the hints in the Sunday papers, she thought it dull of Mrs. Fairford not to have picked up something newer; and as the evening progressed she began to suspect that it wasn't a real 'dinner party', and that they had just asked her in to share what they had when they were alone.

2 comments:

(And I see that you are keeping your staycation to yourself now - ;) - but I'm glad to have a chance to tell you that The Bloomsbury Cookbook is exactly the kind of cookbook you read like a novel and it's a staycation in itself. (I keep telling myself I can only afford a staycation this year, but then again maybe it's because I bought the B.C. ...)